Vitalik Buterin Says AI’s Real Danger Is Who Controls It
Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin argued the gravest AI risk is not rogue superintelligence but a few companies or governments seizing control of it, in a widely shared...
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Meta Sued Over Claims AI Drove Discriminatory Layoff Choices
Twenty-six Meta workers sued the company, alleging its AI systems used metrics like token consumption to select layoff targets, disadvantaging people on medical or family leave.
DeepMind’s Hassabis Calls for a Frontier AI Testing Body
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis proposed a US-led standards body to test the most powerful AI models before release and coordinate an industry slowdown if risks...
Tencent Leads Bid to Unwind Meta’s $2 Billion Manus Deal
Tencent is in talks to become Manus's largest shareholder as investors race to reverse Meta's $2 billion purchase of the AI agent startup, after Beijing ordered...
OpenAI to Launch GPT-5.6 Publicly After Government Review
OpenAI will release its GPT-5.6 models, Sol, Terra and Luna, to the public on July 9 after clearing US government review far faster than the 30-day...
OpenAI Proposes Giving the US Government a 5% Stake
OpenAI has proposed handing the US government a roughly 5% stake, worth about $43 billion, to seed a public wealth fund and ease mounting political pressure...
US Lifts Export Controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US Commerce Department lifted export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, ending an 18-day standoff and restoring the models globally from July...
US Curbs on Anthropic Seen as a Gift to China’s AI Push
As Washington limits Anthropic's and OpenAI's top models on security grounds, critics warn the restrictions are handing momentum to Chinese open-weight rivals like GLM-5.2.
OpenAI Previews GPT-5.6 Models Under US Government Access Limits
GPT-5.6 Sol brings stronger coding and cyber capabilities with OpenAI's most robust safeguards, but a government-approved rollout echoes the Anthropic model ban.
German Court Holds Google Liable for False AI Overview Answers
Google AI Overviews liability sets a precedent as a German court rejects the click-to-verify defense, a ruling that could reach ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity.
After Anthropic’s Newest Models Were Banned Abroad, Europe and Canada Rush to Build Their Own AI
Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 shutdown, the first US export control on an LLM, has Carney and EU lawmakers pushing to reduce reliance on American...
Anthropic CEO Calls for FAA-Style Regulation of Frontier AI
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging binding, FAA-style safety testing for frontier AI models, marking a shift from the company's earlier focus on transparency.